Re: [WiX-users] Uninstall restart issue

2013-06-26 Thread Blair
It also requires that the service is setup to allow non-elevated privileges to stop it. Event Viewer\Windows Logs\Application Source: RestartManager -Original Message- From: Joel Budreau Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 6:22 PM To: afor...@cmu.edu ; General discussion for Windows Instal

Re: [WiX-users] Authoring a patch to patch "everything"

2011-03-02 Thread Blair
An empty PatchFamily is "the" way to have that one PatchFamily cover the entire product. Your error message is symptomatic of something else. Do you have a stack trace of that error? Do you have anti-virus software running on your 'c:\tmp\' folder? -Original Message- From: John Daintree [

Re: [WiX-users] light command line, -b option, alternate path

2011-03-02 Thread Blair
-b tells the binder additional locations where to locate files that are referenced in the wixobj files (the source locations of File, Binary, and other related elements), not the wixobj files themselves. -Original Message- From: Marc Mirucki (Counterpunch Software LLC) [mailto:v-mam...@mic

Re: [WiX-users] DTF Transaction problem with x64 msi

2011-04-19 Thread Blair
different bitnesses in the same transaction, they must be in 64-bit-then-32-bit order. Blair -Original Message- From: Tobias S [mailto:tobias.s1...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 01, 2011 1:11 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] DTF Transacti

Re: [WiX-users] CodeBase value coming empty on ActiveX MSI installation

2011-04-25 Thread Blair
Is in the same Component as the registry entries you provided below? Blair -Original Message- From: Shashikant Saini [mailto:shashikant.sa...@imail.org] Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 3:31 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] CodeBase value coming empty on ActiveX

Re: [WiX-users] Difx versions in WiX

2011-04-25 Thread Blair
re some discussions on wix-users before that feature request was filed discussing issues that were reportedly fixed in the newer DifxApp builds, so it may be worth your while to upgrade to 3.5. Blair -Original Message- From: Rob Hamflett [mailto:r...@snsys.com] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 5:3

Re: [WiX-users] Integrity of WiX binaries

2011-04-25 Thread Blair
Please file a feature request so it doesn't get lost in the email list. Blair -Original Message- From: Alex Ivanoff [mailto:alex.ivan...@shavlik.com] Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 7:18 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Integri

Re: [WiX-users] CustomAction that needs to figure out the destination path

2011-04-25 Thread Blair
Depends on when your custom action is scheduled. Can you describe in more detail what you are trying to achieve? Blair -Original Message- From: Rune Moberg [mailto:jjfl...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, April 23, 2011 1:18 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject

Re: [WiX-users] When Applying patch, no changes reflected. But in log file, getting succes msg.

2011-04-25 Thread Blair
se heat in your build, use -ag not -gg. If you can reuse the previous component guids you have a better chance of success (you can still have problems if any files or other keypaths were removed). Blair -Original Message- From: Preethi S. [mailto:preet...@amiindia.co.in] Sent: Thurs

Re: [WiX-users] Patch install failing on Server 2003 - Error 2920

2011-04-25 Thread Blair
attribute? Blair -Original Message- From: David Rickard (USA) [mailto:davri...@microsoft.com] Sent: Monday, April 18, 2011 4:18 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Patch install failing on Server 2003 - Error 2920 Ran ICE on the MSI+Patch

Re: [WiX-users] old unanswered question regarding to Dialog Close button

2011-04-27 Thread Blair
I'm curious: what happens if you include but disable the cancel button? -Original Message- From: Tobias S [mailto:tobias.s1...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2011 5:13 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] old unanswered question rega

Re: [WiX-users] Creatin User Group and add current user into it

2011-05-09 Thread Blair
Create a Feature Request on SF? Blair -Original Message- From: Christopher Painter [mailto:chr...@deploymentengineering.com] Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2011 6:23 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Creatin User Group and add current user

Re: [WiX-users] 32-Bit < > 64-Bit

2011-05-09 Thread Blair
Are you using the same UpgradeCode? Blair -Original Message- From: James Robertson [mailto:ja...@osodata.com] Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 4:58 AM To: WiX Subject: [WiX-users] 32-Bit < > 64-Bit Hi, I have an existing installer for a 32-bit application that has been working fine f

Re: [WiX-users] Property Behavior in Repair vs. Upgrade

2011-05-09 Thread Blair
Look at ComponentSearch. Blair -Original Message- From: Aaron DeMarre [mailto:adema...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 1:38 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Property Behavior in Repair vs. Upgrade I am wondering if there is a way to get my major upgrade

Re: [WiX-users] error PYRO0001: Could not find file ?

2011-05-09 Thread Blair
the WIXPDB. Alternately you can write a BinderFileManager (which you place into a WixExtension you pass to light) where you override the one of the ResolveFile() methods (use the easiest one that works for your setup). Blair -Original Message- From: Elfe Xu [mailto:elf...@microsoft.com] Sent: Mo

Re: [WiX-users] MigrateFeatures with patch

2011-05-09 Thread Blair
h. A verbose log should tell you why you are getting features set to install when you apply the patch. Blair -Original Message- From: Christoph Vollmer [mailto:christoph.voll...@emendo.co.nz] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 4:21 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-

Re: [WiX-users] [Wix-users]

2011-05-09 Thread Blair
m that way. In fact, your CoPr value would have to be constrained to ensure that you don't create reserved or otherwise defined elsewhere GUID types. Blair -Original Message- From: Aaron Klor [mailto:aaron.k...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 7:06 AM To: General discuss

Re: [WiX-users] [Wix-users]

2011-05-09 Thread Blair
And the set of before the CoPr are not random values either, and you will need to ensure that they don't conflict with the GUID specifications either. Blair -Original Message- From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 10:11 PM To: 'General disc

Re: [WiX-users] Creating patch / AssemblyFileVersion

2011-05-17 Thread Blair
ersely, if you change the interface or otherwise require a new binding, you change both versions. -Blair -Original Message- From: Christoph Vollmer [mailto:christoph.voll...@emendo.co.nz] Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 10:48 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users]

Re: [WiX-users] License and custom BA

2011-05-24 Thread Blair
ou already agreed to. Know that this is solely my opinion and does not bind the WiX toolset, Microsoft Corporation, or any other party in any way. Talk to your attorney before you rely on it. -Blair -Original Message- From: Timo Viitaniemi [mailto:timo.viitani...@crosscontrol.com] Sent: Wed

Re: [WiX-users] Votive: Reference Properties

2011-05-26 Thread Blair
e.net/manual-wix3/heat.htm for details on heat. -Blair -Original Message- From: Andreas [mailto:andreassand...@gmx.net] Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 10:22 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Votive: Reference Properties Hello, I hope I am here at the right place for

Re: [WiX-users] Installer with variable registry key

2011-05-26 Thread Blair
r, upgrade, everything). Make sure your custom action is an immediate custom action so that it can set the properties. Know that immediate custom actions are not normally elevated, so hopefully you can read Excel's registry key without requiring elevation. -Blair -Original Message--

Re: [WiX-users] Setup for client/server application

2011-05-26 Thread Blair
WiX's element can copy arbitrary files to arbitrary directories. You can reference the installation MSI via the OriginalDatabase Windows Installer property. -Blair -Original Message- From: Michael Stoll [mailto:unwicht...@mistoll.de] Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 5:23 AM To: wix-

Re: [WiX-users] Unable to execute SQL script from patch msp

2011-05-26 Thread Blair
e MSP file itself? -Blair -Original Message- From: Nangai [mailto:thangananga...@iinterchange.com] Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 5:04 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Unable to execute SQL script from patch msp Hi, I am using Wix 3.5.2519.0 to create patch. I am

Re: [WiX-users] IUSR

2011-05-26 Thread Blair
What does a verbose log say? If you are not certain as to the value of your IUSR_USERNAME property, it will be hard to verify that what account was given write access to your file. -Blair -Original Message- From: gapearce [mailto:mr_gapea...@yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 12

Re: [WiX-users] How do i change the default permissions of a certificate installed by wix.

2011-05-26 Thread Blair
There is not current code in WiX to set arbitrary permissions on certificates installed via WiX. If someone can dig up the APIs used to set permissions on certificates, that could be added -Blair -Original Message- From: Will Gross [mailto:mastermind...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, May

Re: [WiX-users] Votive: Reference Properties

2011-05-28 Thread Blair
Heat "out-of-the-box" does not currently gather project's dependencies. That is currently a manual task. There was a recent thread on this email list discussing the difficulties with automatically gathering dependencies/references. -Blair -Original Message

Re: [WiX-users] How do i change the default permissions of a certificate installed by wix.

2011-08-12 Thread Blair
sions of a certificate installed by wix. Just added it. (http://wixcontrib.codeplex.com/SourceControl/network/Forks/mistoll/WixIssEx tension) Michael Am 28.05.2011 02:38, schrieb Blair Murri: > It's not dead, it just hasn't been updated in a very long time. > > Go ahead and add

Re: [WiX-users] upgrade install errors

2011-11-15 Thread Blair
uses all four numbers (none are ignored) of the patch sequence number, to achieve upgrading and prevent downgrading. Blair -Original Message- From: Justin Hull [mailto:justin.h...@assetpoint.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 12:22 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML

Re: [WiX-users] Getting error on writing INI section using addline

2011-11-15 Thread Blair
ned preserving/restoring those properties in your previous topic. Blair -Original Message- From: justin hull [mailto:justin.h...@assetpoint.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 2:48 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Getting error on writing INI section using addline

Re: [WiX-users] Enable/disable "Next" button

2011-11-15 Thread Blair
element? -Original Message- From: AxiomaticImpact [mailto:ke...@legendary-immersion.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 2:11 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Enable/disable "Next" button -- View this message in context: http://windows-installer-xml-wix-too

Re: [WiX-users] util:RemoveFolderEx with condition?

2011-11-15 Thread Blair
The only clean ways I am coming up with involve various schemes to force the component containing that RemoveFolderEx element to remain "installed" (and presumably orphaned) when the product containing it is removed. Does anyone else want to weigh in with ideas on that theme? Blair ---

Re: [WiX-users] Getting error on writing INI section using addline

2011-11-16 Thread Blair
>From the point of view of the installation sequence, user input from custom forms and command line are the same thing. Blair -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definit

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with file association and harvesting files

2011-11-21 Thread Blair
Add a transform to heat's commandline that adds the Verb. -Original Message- From: Peter Bulyaki [mailto:peter.buly...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 21, 2011 8:27 AM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Subject: [WiX-users] Problem with file association and harves

Re: [WiX-users] add reference to C++ project

2011-11-21 Thread Blair
Daniel, How many WXS files cause VS2010/MSBuild to croak? I haven't seen that. Blair -- All the data continuously generated in your IT infrastructure contains a definitive record of customers, application perfor

Re: [WiX-users] questions about upgrading to a stable wix version

2011-11-21 Thread Blair
$(var.MyEnableCondition) NOT ($(var.MyEnableCondition)) 7) Stable release Right now 3.5 was RTM about 9 months ago, and 3.6 was declared Beta almost a month ago. Your welcome, Blair -Original Message- From: Calin Iaru [mailto:ca...@dolphinics.no] Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 3

Re: [WiX-users] Wix bug #1908338 regression in WiX 3.6?

2011-11-27 Thread Blair
ops the build before the other error could ever surface. Are you harvesting your C# projects from your WiX project? How are you "handcrafting" your references? What settings/properties have you set wrt your harvesting? That is where I would start my investigation. Blair -Origin

Re: [WiX-users] CreateFolder is not creating required directory structure ...

2011-11-29 Thread Blair
en by properties being set, and others don't. I suspect you ARE creating those directories, just not where you think you are. Please review your entire directory tree. Blair -- All the data continuously generated

Re: [WiX-users] CreateFolder is not creating required directory structure ...

2011-12-01 Thread Blair
omponents containing CreateFolder elements. Blair -Original Message- From: mat_macwilliam [mailto:marcus.macwill...@1spatial.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 2:18 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] CreateFolder is not creating required directory structure

Re: [WiX-users] How to use Burn to install new and minor upgrade

2011-12-01 Thread Blair
y ship the same EXE binary in all builds. That way, you can update the code of the service while not having to reinstall the service on each upgrade. -Blair -Original Message- From: Michael Janulaitis [mailto:wix-u...@cornerbowl.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 23, 2011 11:16 PM To: General

Re: [WiX-users] Is major update supposed to duplicate the add/remove programs entry?

2011-12-03 Thread Blair
To be a major upgrade the RemoveExistingProducts action must be scheduled/run. -Original Message- From: Robert Lee [mailto:genrobert...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 3:12 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] Is major update supposed to duplicate the

Re: [WiX-users] Conditions in merge modules

2009-12-09 Thread Blair
ld I need to put the condition checks on each feature to be installed? -Original Message- From: Blair [mailto:os...@live.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 12:38 PM To: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.' Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Conditions in merge

Re: [WiX-users] How to specify files in Installer package

2009-12-09 Thread Blair
, December 09, 2009 12:56 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] How to specify files in Installer package Hi Blair! Those directories contain many files and I don't want to specify them by hand. And if I want to ignore .svn directories, I'm fully out of luck. Addit

Re: [WiX-users] Patching problems with alternate directories

2009-12-09 Thread Blair
ng to that location. Blair-2 wrote: > > Are your patches MSP files performing either small updates or minor > upgrades? If so, the patch application won't let you patch anywhere other > than the currently installed location since the keypath of the components > can't

Re: [WiX-users] multiple entries in add remove programs.

2009-12-10 Thread Blair
The intent is: - A major update is an update that "replaces" all previous versions of a product. It never requires (usually) the previous version to be installed. - A minor update is an identical copy of an original with some "minor" changes. You can't really remove anything in the "replacement p

Re: [WiX-users] install previous version when service major upgrade fails

2009-12-10 Thread Blair
You will increase your success rate by doing these things: - Get rid of your self-registration and use the built-in Windows platform support for services (the Service* elements in WiX). * the above will require that you perform all your registration using Registry entries, etc. in the MSI itse

Re: [WiX-users] Patching problems with alternate directories

2009-12-10 Thread Blair
What does the log say about the component statuses? -Original Message- From: XorPtr [mailto:reaper4...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 6:27 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Patching problems with alternate directories Hey Blair-2, I'

Re: [WiX-users] Patching problems with alternate directories

2009-12-10 Thread Blair
er 10, 2009 12:00 PM > To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Patching problems with alternate directories > > > All of the components are listed as: > > Installed: Local; Request: Local; Action: Local. > > > Blair-2 wrote: >&g

Re: [WiX-users] Adding Files Using Patch

2009-12-10 Thread Blair
If the file didn't exist in the baseline image there really shouldn't be a difference for that file by merely adding the delta switch. Is this something where you can share the wixmst file with me? -Original Message- From: nearnick [mailto:n...@nearglobal.com] Sent: Thursday, December 1

Re: [WiX-users] Finding on APRNOMODIFY .. is this right ?

2009-12-11 Thread Blair
Copy WixUI_InstallDir.wxs from the sources to your project, remove the offending property, and refer to your copy instead of the one in the extension. Later, address the maintenance mode dialog sequence to ensure it works for you. -Original Message- From: Robert Hermann [mailto:rob.herm..

Re: [WiX-users] util:User, util:Group controlling sequencing...

2009-12-14 Thread Blair
rsionNT > 400 NOT SKIPINSTALLSQLDATA AND VersionNT > 400 VersionNT > 400 VersionNT NOT REMOVE~="ALL" AND VersionNT > 400 "VersionNT>=600" VersionNT -Blair -Original Message- From: Tony [mailto:yellowjacketl...@gm

Re: [WiX-users] WiX Tutorial: a minor issue in the Patchwork section

2009-12-18 Thread Blair
At the bottom of each page, the author's name is a hyperlink that opens a partially populated email message to compose (assuming your email client and your computer's browser are both setup for that). Here is that hyperlink: mailto:d...@tramontana.co.hu?subject=wixtutorial -Original Message---

Re: [WiX-users] How Do I Verify Group Membership?

2009-12-18 Thread Blair
I agree that this is a reasonably good method to deal with the per-user configuration that inevitably ends up falling on the setup developers to supply. The one thing to keep in mind is how to trigger that "last part of install" for the non-installing users (assuming your installation is per-ma

Re: [WiX-users] question about upgrades

2009-12-18 Thread Blair
If the ProductCode you are attempting to install is already installed, it is no longer a major upgrade and is a maintenance mode transaction (see small update & minor upgrade, as well as repair and removal). Your ProductCode must not be installed in order to perform an installation transaction (bot

Re: [WiX-users] util:User, util:Group controlling sequencing...

2009-12-18 Thread Blair
ck on the account dialog asking them to verify the information they provided. This isn't as much of an issue for the group membership function as we can only add the user to existing groups. So, a simple type-o won't fail the install. On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Blair wrote: >

Re: [WiX-users] Question on updating GAC assemblies

2009-12-18 Thread Blair
Also, Daniel, to attempt to help you answer your question as to the difference in behavior caused by the addition of the InstallExecute and the placement of MsiProvideAssembly, it helps to understand the following about Windows Installer: Everything you see in any sequence table you should cons

Re: [WiX-users] Expanding an env var at install time when writing to the registry

2009-12-18 Thread Blair
After CostFinalize [#fileid] is the full path to your File with Id of "fileid" during installation without any "%" characters in it. Also, [directoryname] is the "\"-appended full path to the Directory with the Id of "directoryname". So you can use both of these patterns in creating your registry e

Re: [WiX-users] UI Custom Action displays dialog behing MSI

2009-12-18 Thread Blair
The problem isn't so much with MessageBox specifically as it is with UI in general: Windows Installer doesn't support custom UI all that well. The "built-in" support for what you are trying to do is called either "embedded UI" or "external UI", not showing dialogs from your immediate custom actions

Re: [WiX-users] How to launch application as Standard User while the installer ran as Admin

2009-12-18 Thread Blair
Why does your installer require admin to run? Are you bootstrapping things in addition to your MSI? -Original Message- From: little.forest [mailto:little.for...@ymail.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 11:08 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] How to launch ap

Re: [WiX-users] Service uninstall fails in Win 7 from Control Panel

2009-12-19 Thread Blair
Sometimes Windows Installer will send you install messages what, when AND'd with INSTALLMESSAGE_TYPEMASK, are not something you recognize. If you return an error (-1) you just failed your transaction and if you return any other non-zero value you just bypassed whatever it was attempting (which is b

Re: [WiX-users] Registering 32- and 64-bit versions of COM InProc Server

2009-12-19 Thread Blair
You need two components, one marked 32-bit and the other 64-bit. Each will write to the appropriate areas of the system. Yes, you will have some duplicate information shared in both components, but each will refer to the appropriate binary and each should be under the appropriate directory. -O

Re: [WiX-users] Override UI control property in wxs file

2009-12-19 Thread Blair
Currently you copy the dialog's sources into your code and change the values you want. Refer to the help, blogs, this list, and tutorials to see how. -Original Message- From: Petr Pokorný [mailto:ppoko...@intermap.com] Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 3:06 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforg

Re: [WiX-users] WiX, InstallShield and combining multiple MSIs

2009-12-21 Thread Blair
What you don't mention are the following: Which of the 21 MSIs are written in WiX (as opposed to InstallShield) and how many (of each) are written in older versions of each of those two toolsets. Will you be supplying your own UI binary (a bootstrapper) or will you be attempting to combine the va

Re: [WiX-users] Allow Multiple Package Versions to Coexist, But Always Install Over Same Version?

2009-12-21 Thread Blair
You would need to calculate a guid using your version number to use as your ProductCode (such that the same version number always generates the same guid and different version numbers generate different guids). Either a hash-based guid generator or a V1-style guid, I would think. -Original Me

Re: [WiX-users] Conditional installation of a feature

2009-12-22 Thread Blair
Back to your original authoring: CostFinalize is run twice in any given installation with UI: during InstallUISequence and during InstallExecuteSequence. Is MYPROPERTY marked as secure? If it isn't, it will be 0 (the default) during InstallExecuteSequence (not whatever you set it as during Install

Re: [WiX-users] Setting properties in custom actions

2009-12-22 Thread Blair
The on the components is evaluated during CostFinalize, not CreateShortcuts. You don't get the shortcuts because the components installing the shortcuts are not being installed due to the false condition on them. I would recommend moving your CheckApplicationLicence custom action sequence to befo

Re: [WiX-users] writing to console from smoke.exe using custom action

2009-12-22 Thread Blair
You need to use MsiProcessMessage with the INSTALLMESSAGE_USER type. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/aa369205.aspx for details. -Original Message- From: nagaram.c [mailto:nagara...@symphony.cc] Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 5:13 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [Wi

Re: [WiX-users] Forcing uninstall with different InstallScope?

2009-12-22 Thread Blair
The Upgrade table/RemoveExistingProducts action cannot cross scopes. You will have to use a bootstrapper to remove the old per-user installation. -Original Message- From: Evan Beeton [mailto:ebee...@informasoftware.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 11:23 AM To: General discussion for

Re: [WiX-users] writing to console from smoke.exe using custom action

2009-12-25 Thread Blair
.MSI database, thus it isn't expected that they would require admin privs or any other reason that the action would be anything other than immediate. -Original Message- From: nagaram.c [mailto:nagara...@symphony.cc] Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 9:54 PM To: 'Blair'; &#x

Re: [WiX-users] Clarification on the MSI security

2009-12-29 Thread Blair
You can try setting the packa...@readonly attribute. As far as I know Orca respects the read-only selection but I have never tried it myself. However, the APIs don't seem to prohibit editing (and committing) "read-only" MSI files. If your MSI file is authenticode-signed than any editing at all wil

Re: [WiX-users] Creating MSI for 64bit machine

2009-12-30 Thread Blair
I would recommend using the DTF "wrapper" for C# (or any other .net) custom actions. If your C# code is AnyCPU you won't need to worry about bitness for the CA code itself using DTF. Otherwise, 32-bit CAs work in all 64-bit systems that have WoW64 present (see http://blogs.msdn.com/heaths/archive/

Re: [WiX-users] BrowseDlg & SelectionPathOn help

2009-12-30 Thread Blair
I don't know, but look at CustomizeDlg.wxs in the sources for ideas since that is the .wxs that incorporates BrowseDlg and it seems to employ the same features you are trying to enable in your ChangeFolderDlg. -Original Message- From: Sagar [mailto:sagarkavitak...@gmail.com] Sent: Tue

Re: [WiX-users] Input Validation

2009-12-31 Thread Blair
How about this? NOT ($(var.InputValidated)) $(var.InputValidated) Yes, I realize that this maintains the double-evaluation, but it is more maintainable (since you type it only once) and the time to evaluate

Re: [WiX-users] writing to console from smoke.exe using customaction

2009-12-31 Thread Blair
ad of create) _ Van: nagaram.c [mailto:nagara...@symphony.cc] Verzonden: do 24-12-2009 6:46 Aan: 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'; 'Blair' Onderwerp: Re: [WiX-users] writing to console from smoke.exe using customaction I found a solution, the custom a

Re: [WiX-users] Source files and MSI file location.

2009-12-31 Thread Blair
As I understand it, the SourceDir property must be the root of the source tree (the directory tree that the files and folders you are installing), and it is set to be the directory location of the MSI file itself. Can you move setup.msi to the Conent folder? -Original Message- From: V0id

Re: [WiX-users] Setting properties in custom actions

2010-01-02 Thread Blair
Windows Installer evaluates component conditions during CostFinalize, so your custom action that sets those session values must be scheduled before then. I would recommend scheduling those types of actions to run before CostInitialize, just to have a "smoother" flow. -Original Message- Fro

Re: [WiX-users] differentiating between COM & C++ dlls from installerdatabase (.msi)

2010-01-04 Thread Blair
You could try an "administrative install". You could also try heat.exe's extraction option. The APIs involve extracting the cabs and then using the cabinet APIs to extract the files, for the cases where the files are compressed & embedded. For external cabs, just the cabinet APIs. For non-compres

Re: [WiX-users] writing to console from smoke.exe using customaction

2010-01-04 Thread Blair
quot;C"' and are also listed in the .def file to prevent any form of compiler/linker decoration. -Original Message- From: nagaram.c [mailto:nagara...@symphony.cc] Sent: Sunday, January 03, 2010 10:08 PM To: 'Blair'; 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML to

Re: [WiX-users] Overwrite property only if it was not set on command line

2010-01-04 Thread Blair
The only thing you can do is compare the current value of the property against the known default value. If the command-line value is the same as the default value you wouldn't ever be able to know. The only way to know for sure if a property was set from the command-line is to not have the propert

Re: [WiX-users] writing to console from smoke.exe using customaction

2010-01-04 Thread Blair
eturn (int) error; } -Original Message- From: nagaram.c [mailto:nagara...@symphony.cc] Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 5:20 AM To: 'Blair'; 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'; 'Schrieken, Rene' Subject: RE: [WiX-users] writing to console from sm

Re: [WiX-users] Build time selection of codepage...

2010-01-04 Thread Blair
Easiest way is via .WXL files. Since each can contain just one culture you simply use that file to set the codepage (and don't set the codepage in the database code itself). The biggest limitation with this idea is you can't directly set the summary codepage this way, but you can use loc variables

Re: [WiX-users] How to patch an installer dialog using WIX 3.0?

2010-01-04 Thread Blair
Most patches should not have any references under PatchFamily (nor more than one PatchFamily). That will cause ALL changes between the target and upgraded images to be included in the patch. Some (generally very large and complicated) setups require scoping the changes into groups/series/buckets w

Re: [WiX-users] How to patch an installer dialog using WIX 3.0?

2010-01-04 Thread Blair
installer dialog using WIX 3.0? Blair, if we don't have ANY references under PatchFamily, how can we tell WIX which change should be included in the patch? Without listing every changed component/property/etc. in the patch WXS file, none of the changes are making to the final MSP. FYI, I am able to

Re: [WiX-users] multiple instances wix source code

2010-01-04 Thread Blair
Look at InstanceTransforms element? -Original Message- From: angela jones [mailto:suggestionang...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 3:37 PM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [WiX-users] multiple instances wix source code Hello, I have built and msi for install

Re: [WiX-users] How to patch an installer dialog using WIX 3.0?

2010-01-04 Thread Blair
s] How to patch an installer dialog using WIX 3.0? Thanks for the explaining that Blair. I already have everything in place for the PatchFamily and PatchFamilyRef. So, that part is good and I am able to generate the patch without any issues. The only thing that I am not sure is if I can use the U

Re: [WiX-users] writing to console from smoke.exe using customaction

2010-01-05 Thread Blair
[mailto:nagara...@symphony.cc] Sent: Monday, January 04, 2010 10:39 PM To: 'Blair'; 'General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset.'; 'Schrieken, Rene' Subject: RE: [WiX-users] writing to console from smoke.exe using customaction It looks like MsiProcessMessage work

Re: [WiX-users] Build time selection of codepage...

2010-01-05 Thread Blair
summary codepage myself (since I have usually had to > deal with "unicode-only" languages). You lost me here. I understood the first part... On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 5:06 PM, Blair wrote: > Easiest way is via .WXL files. Since each can contain just one culture you > simply use

Re: [WiX-users] Problem with mouse disappearing

2010-01-05 Thread Blair
The sourceforge group email system often strips attachments. Please consider posting the wxs file to a server somewhere and include a URL in the email to retrieve it. Thanks. -Original Message- From: Helgi Hrafn Gunnarsson [mailto:he...@binary.is] Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 7:29 AM

Re: [WiX-users] Updating XML written with XmlFile

2010-01-05 Thread Blair
During your "change" transaction set the REINSTALL property to include the feature(s) that include the components you would like to change. -Original Message- From: Kevin Garman [mailto:gar...@scadaware.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 6:19 AM To: General discussion for Windows Instal

Re: [WiX-users] Passwords, hidden and the log file

2010-01-05 Thread Blair
Add To your authoring -Original Message- From: Balu Swaminathan [mailto:bswa...@hotmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 10:55 AM To: wix user list Subject: [WiX-users] Passwords, hidden and the log file Hello All: I have: and the value passed on PASSWORD is writt

Re: [WiX-users] Build time selection of codepage...

2010-01-05 Thread Blair
te OS platforms (like Chinese and Japanese), how is this possible? Or is that what you mean by having a "UTF-8 database"? I know UTF-8 encoding supports multi-byte character sets. So, maybe that is how these msi are working? On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Blair wrote: > If you no

Re: [WiX-users] Shortcut path for Merge modules

2010-01-05 Thread Blair
What you don't say is whether what you ship are the merge modules themselves or if you simply use them as internal "global" libraries for the MSIs you build. You also don't say whether you are porting all at once or in stages. -Original Message- From: Bill Packard [mailto:bill.pack...@kepw

Re: [WiX-users] How to create extension and a new schema ?

2010-01-05 Thread Blair
I know that the WixVsExtension defines properties like VS90_SCHEMAS_DIR that would be the directory you would need to place the .xsd file into. Use the appropriate property for the version of Visual Studio you are targeting. Beyond that, either MSDN or the forums on MSDN would have much more infor

Re: [WiX-users] getting win32 exception while running the newly added custom ICE

2010-01-06 Thread Blair
Is it at all possible that the new ICE900 test you wrote uses the C++ runtime DLL? In your C++ build settings you need to make sure you link to the static runtime library AND that you build Release (not Debug) for the version you run away from the developer's box. -Original Message- From:

Re: [WiX-users] getting win32 exception while running the newly added custom ICE

2010-01-06 Thread Blair
ation dialog), change the Runtime Library setting to "Multi-threaded (/MT)", then hit Apply and OK. -Original Message- From: nagaram.c [mailto:nagara...@symphony.cc] Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 5:17 AM To: 'Blair'; 'General discussion for Windows Installer

Re: [WiX-users] Installing WiX 3.5

2010-01-06 Thread Blair
If you use the MSI, it only allows one installation of WiX at a time (installing 3.5 will replace 3.0). Other than that, I have not yet used 3.5 with VS2008, so I wouldn't know of any issues with opening the files, but you can always disable building the 3.0 WiX project before you install 3.5 and

Re: [WiX-users] Passing installation parameter to exe

2010-01-06 Thread Blair
Preagent.exe is a file you are installing, using for configuration, or both? You need to call it with those parameters as the installing user or elevated? It needs to be visible to the user when it runs or not? It should have those parameters every time it runs or just once? Can you do the same thi

Re: [WiX-users] Shortcut path for Merge modules

2010-01-06 Thread Blair
ortly thereafter you convert the MSI projects to WiX, however. -Original Message- From: Bill Packard [mailto:bill.pack...@kepware.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 6:44 AM To: wix-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Shortcut path for Merge modules Blair, The merge mo

Re: [WiX-users] Performance Counters supported for MSP?

2010-01-06 Thread Blair
Your keypath is 'DT.MyDir' (as you have authored it). -Original Message- From: Jeff Perrigo [mailto:jeff.perr...@microsoft.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 5:18 PM To: General discussion for Windows Installer XML toolset. Cc: Bob Arnson Subject: Re: [WiX-users] Performance Counters

Re: [WiX-users] Passing installation parameter to exe

2010-01-07 Thread Blair
eters without running it?" Sorry, I didn't understand this quastion.. Thanks for your time, Shlomi On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 6:26 PM, Blair wrote: > Preagent.exe is a file you are installing, using for configuration, or > both? > You need to call it with those parameters as the insta

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